Peter:
I'm not entirely sure of JP's full position re: YEC,
but even if Humphrey's were right (I've not read his
book yet, although I'll search it out) it poses a problem
for MANY YEC's.
John Paul:
If you had read the book you would have seen it is exactly what YEC requires.
Peter:
Effectively, if right, Humphrey's hypothesis leads to the
conclusion that the story in Genesis is NOT strictly speaking
the literal truth.
John Paul:
I don't have to book with me so if I have time later I will fill in some points. Regardless the way he writes it goes along with a literal Genesis.
Peter:
Why ?
Genesis says that from nothing to a fully populated Earth
took 6 days.
John Paul:
Fully populated is a stretch. Is today's world fully populated?
Peter:
The earth itself is created on day 1 ... before light is created,
and three 'days' before any stars are created (on day 4).
How could stars be created AFTER the earth, and yet their light
be millions of years old, when the earth is only thousands
of years old ?
John Paul:
It all has to do with
event horizons, time dilation and relativity.
Peter:
We either have a Young Earth, but the bible is wrong.
OR
A young earth and Humphrey's is wrong.
(OR an old earth, natch )
I cannot see any way that Humphrey's hypothesis could be compatible
with Genesis. Admittedly I haven't read the book ... so perhaps JP
(who has?) could answer this one.
John Paul:
The cool part about the book (now in video) is Humphreys puts down his version on how he believes God Created the cosmos, day by day. If his premise is correct as the event horizon of the white hole reaches earth, although only 24 hours of earth time go by, billions of years of processes take place outside of the event horizon.
He uses Stephen Hawking's idea of an astronaut and a astronomer. That is as the astronomer watches the astronaut fall towards an event horizon of a black hole the astronomer notices the astronauts time piece is moving slower and slower. Once the astronaut gets to the EH the astronomer observes the astronaut's time piece has effectively stopped. What Humphreys does is to turn that around and use the astronaut observing the astronomer. As the astronaut nears the EH he observes the clock on the astronomer's wall speeding up. As the astronaut reaches the EH the astronomer's clock becomes a blur because the hands are moving too fast.
IOW God used relativity to Create the universe in 6 days, earth time.
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